My goal for Summer II (next week until august) is to get confident with my form. I do the typical “I can’t do any more because I’m not sure about my form thing,” and actually taking time to learn about and fix my form will eliminate that. I haven’t gone back assessed what I’ve been doing since I first ventured into the weight room, and a lot has changed since then. I’ve got “Starting Strength” so I’m just going to start there, and of course all the logs on here. It’s just hard to differentiate between good and bad advice when it comes to lifting. I’ll look on newegg for a video camera of some sort over the weekend. If this taping lifts is all I want it for there should be something fairly cheap and easy out there.
I didn’t have a plan at the gym this evening, I just went to go. The only part of me that wasn’t sore was my back so I rowed a bit, then did some lat pull downs. I tried wide grip too, never done those before, quite the interesting feeling. I felt it a lot in my arms but I don’t know if that’s because they were already sore? A few db pull overs, and then the steam room to top it all off.
Can I take my ipod in the steam room? Anyone know?
i occasionally lurk there, too pch. trying to grow my hair without the ends getting dry and split and got to thinking ‘i bet hairdressers know as much about hair health as personal trainers know about fitness’ so decided to do some investigating of my own.
i’ve been experimenting with oil. it is a bit hard, though… i think most people who get into oil have thicker darker hair (e.g., asian or indian descent) whereas i have very fine hair with a tendancy to frizz. i’ve been putting macademia oil into the ends (apparently oil is the bodies way of lubricating / protecting skin and hair and shampoo cleans by stripping the oil out which either makes things dry or the bodyovercompensates by learning to overproduce oil resulting in greasiness - but oil dilutes oil so putting oil into the hair then washing off the excess will work as a moisturizing cleanser).
only… my hair will start to look too greasy. there is a fine line between enough oil (natural or macademia) to reduce the frizz and too much oil. currently… needing to use a little clarifying shampoo to help degrease but hoping to wean off it eventually…
get a bit (okay a lot) self conscious about how my hair smells because of smoking.
so you just rinse with warm water?? i wish my hair strands were thicker
I have been doing the washing every other day thing but never heard of the no poo thing. Will google for sure.
As far as your camera hunt is concerned. I have a digital that I bought for around 100.00 from walmart and I have had no problem with it. I got the 4GB card to go with and that can store up to 1 hour of filming. <–More than you need(for the gym) 0:-)
This is a review of my Camera(in the pic, although mine is red not pink).
I have a 5 year old’s attention span (and apparently endurance) so hopped around a bunch for cardio today. I really don’t like the Thursday spin guy, so I’ll be hopping around every thurs. I’ll slowly start adding time to the harder stuff and taking away from the easier, as they morph into each other, but for now my butt was kicked.
15 min on the inclined treadmill
15 min on some sort of elliptical machine
15 min with the nemesis
Man, written out it seems like so little, doing it didn’t feel little.
[quote]alexus wrote:
i occasionally lurk there, too pch. trying to grow my hair without the ends getting dry and split and got to thinking ‘i bet hairdressers know as much about hair health as personal trainers know about fitness’ so decided to do some investigating of my own.
i’ve been experimenting with oil. it is a bit hard, though… i think most people who get into oil have thicker darker hair (e.g., asian or indian descent) whereas i have very fine hair with a tendancy to frizz. i’ve been putting macademia oil into the ends (apparently oil is the bodies way of lubricating / protecting skin and hair and shampoo cleans by stripping the oil out which either makes things dry or the bodyovercompensates by learning to overproduce oil resulting in greasiness - but oil dilutes oil so putting oil into the hair then washing off the excess will work as a moisturizing cleanser).
only… my hair will start to look too greasy. there is a fine line between enough oil (natural or macademia) to reduce the frizz and too much oil. currently… needing to use a little clarifying shampoo to help degrease but hoping to wean off it eventually…
get a bit (okay a lot) self conscious about how my hair smells because of smoking.
so you just rinse with warm water?? i wish my hair strands were thicker
your hair looks great.[/quote]
I don’t really know anything about different hair types, but what works for me regarding the oil is to use very little. I use coconut oil, and get my hands oily by putting some in my palm and then rubbing it into my legs (it’s a great lotion substitute). Then with the little that’s left on my hands I oil my hair. I start at the end then oil about 3/4th of the way up. I find that my scalp oils the top 1/4 of my head enough and adding to it makes it feel greasy. I only do this when the ends appear dry (not shiny).
When I do feel moderately like a grease ball, I rinse it with water. I pay a lot of attention to massaging my scalp and using my fingers to spread the sebum from my scalp to the length. I probably do this once every 10 days.
If I’m feeling a lot like a grease ball, I brush it out with a boar bristle brush. Again paying attention to the idea of spreading the sebum, so I part sections like I’m flat ironing it and brush those sections. Then in the shower I pour an Apple Cider Vinegar & water mix onto my hair. I try to cover scalp and length, and leave it there for a few min (don’t get ACV in your eyes!). Then I rinse. This usually cuts the grease down. I always let it air dry.
I don’t really know what you should do about the smoky smell.
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
Hey Pch2 or is it Peaches?
I have been doing the washing every other day thing but never heard of the no poo thing. Will google for sure.
As far as your camera hunt is concerned. I have a digital that I bought for around 100.00 from walmart and I have had no problem with it. I got the 4GB card to go with and that can store up to 1 hour of filming. <–More than you need(for the gym) 0:-)
This is a review of my Camera(in the pic, although mine is red not pink).
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
hey there!! I forget your all grown up and smart and stuff. What do you teach again??[/quote]
Science? I have a biology class (my back ground is molecular genetics) an intro chem class (at the intro level it’s all the same), and I’m doing research on science learning in the Engineering department. I’m really starting to think we need to stop teasing apart the sciences into different subjects. As a kid you just take science, and at the highest level it’s all the same, I don’t think we need to differentiate between the different types in the middle. They’re all the same, but then everything is the same. I’ll stop now, I can write a whole paper on this.
Right now I’ve got five 5am sessions of mostly cardio and a yoga class on Thursday’s with my mom. I’m going to try to fit in 3 lifting sessions. I haven’t been going to the gym on weekends so that’ll be fixed. So, in the end I’ll be at 9 sessions a week, but they’re only an hour or slightly over.
Phew, sorry for the long replies to short questions.
15 min rowing before yoga today. My shoulders tighten up really quickly
I also managed to lose my favorite workout pants this week, so I picked up a replacement pair. The were on sale at Kohls for $10 and have a cool seam where the front is kinda matte and the back shiny. Hopefully you can see it in the pic. Sorry for the awkwardness of the shot, if the pic taking skills continuum started at Frenchie they would end at me.
[quote]pch2 wrote:
15 min rowing before yoga today. My shoulders tighten up really quickly
I also managed to lose my favorite workout pants this week, so I picked up a replacement pair. The were on sale at Kohls for $10 and have a cool seam where the front is kinda matte and the back shiny. Hopefully you can see it in the pic. Sorry for the awkwardness of the shot, if the pic taking skills continuum started at Frenchie they would end at me. [/quote]
It can be hard to take self shots unless you use the timer but even then you don’t know if the shot is good until after. argh
Yep I can see the seem.
For using your moms digital just push the “mode” button at the back and it should have “movie” as an option.
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
It can be hard to take self shots unless you use the timer but even then you don’t know if the shot is good until after. argh
Yep I can see the seem.
For using your moms digital just push the “mode” button at the back and it should have “movie” as an option. [/quote]
Thanks for the tip earlier! I now have my hand on a Kodac EasyShare m893 which according to the interweb can take video snippets. This weekends task will now be learning how to use it. Figuring out positioning is going to be an event in itself.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
you are back !! yay
are you roling anymore?[/quote]
No, dude, it’s been forever. I did have an odd BJJ dream last night, I just remember it happened in some weird skater store. My brother is here next week though, so maybe I can get him to road trip somewhere with me.
[quote]alexus wrote:
thanks for the hair advice. have figured out what i’m doing wrong
really like the pants! i’m a big fan of that kind of side seam. i think it accentuates the hammies / glutes in flattering ways.
yay for vids![/quote]
Glad I could help, can I ask what you were doing wrong?
Thanks!
It’ll be interesting. I just listened to a radiolab episode where they talked about reflections and pictures. What you see in the mirror isn’t what other people see when they look at you since the mirror is a reflection and sides are swapped. So there’s a guy that makes ‘true mirrors’ so you can see yourself like others do and not the mirror image. He takes them to craft fairs, and the radio show had a clip of a guy saying he thought he looked good, but the ‘true mirror’ turned him into a monster. Apparently a lot of people have that reaction, they do not like how they look in the true mirror. Some didn’t recognize themselves. I really like wearing rose colored glasses, my sunglasses are actually rose colored! Taking them off is going to be scary, but I guess worth it. You can’t fix what you can’t see.
I feel like I make too many jumps when I write here, but my posts are long enough without a lot of elaboration, hopefully you get it?
i’m not sure if i get it. but it occurs to me that what we post here (with the vids) is a mirror image. i guess people on the boards see me more similarly to how i see myself then people IRL do since IRL people see the true mirror.
it also occurs to me that the first vids i took of myself (which i posted here) freaked me out a whole heap. because basically… i try very hard to not look at myself at all. i don’t see the true mirror, obviously, but i tried hard not to look at the mirror either.
don’t know if that has anything at all to do with it.
couple things. being too heavy handed with the macademia oil. so then needing to shampoo it out which basically defeated the whole purpose. also… i didn’t have a boar bristle brush. was careful not to pull / tear it - but wasn’t brushing it properly. got it into my head that they were super-expensive but actually managed to find one for like $18 today. actually bushed it. i see what you mean now about getting the sebum down into the ends. using the brush, but also massaging it down with my fingers, yeah. sebum seems to work a whole heap better than the expensive products that i have (so happy to ditch them). it looks heaps better already. got some apple cider vinegar, too, incase i need it, but for now happy to wait a couple days anyway and see how much i can really get the sebum down into the ends. some of them are very dry. not split yet. hope i can save them. each trip to the hairdressers stops it growing…
(kinda embarrassed to admit my obvious now that i know them mistakes. but oh wells).
Friday’s spin class is canceled for the summer so it looks like I’ll be doing boot camp. Man, we make fun of those girls, but that shit is hard! It’s 45 min of intervals, and I was in the old lady ‘modified’ progression group. What we were supposed to do:
2 min of OH DB carries - 4lbs became awful, I like 30 seconds of 45lbs much better!
.25 mile run
Squat thrust with pushup
x10
Mtn climbers 4 count x10
Bent row while balancing on one foot x10
Squat jumps x10
Jumping Jacks x10
1 arm row while in plank
Mtn climbers 4 count x10
bicycle legs (the ab thing) 1 min
Plank 1 min
Side plank 30 sec each side
x3
[quote]alexus wrote:
i’m not sure if i get it. but it occurs to me that what we post here (with the vids) is a mirror image. i guess people on the boards see me more similarly to how i see myself then people IRL do since IRL people see the true mirror.
it also occurs to me that the first vids i took of myself (which i posted here) freaked me out a whole heap. because basically… i try very hard to not look at myself at all. i don’t see the true mirror, obviously, but i tried hard not to look at the mirror either.
don’t know if that has anything at all to do with it.[/quote]
Yeah that’s pretty much what I was rambling on about. Isn’t is odd how easy it is to go through life without actually seeing yourself? Not even just in mirrors, but being not self aware of what you’re doing and what you’re projecting to the world?
I’ve been exposed to a lot of physicists lately, they always make things appear weird, I think I’m displaying some of that.
[quote] couple things. being too heavy handed with the macademia oil. so then needing to shampoo it out which basically defeated the whole purpose. also… i didn’t have a boar bristle brush. was careful not to pull / tear it - but wasn’t brushing it properly. got it into my head that they were super-expensive but actually managed to find one for like $18 today. actually bushed it. i see what you mean now about getting the sebum down into the ends. using the brush, but also massaging it down with my fingers, yeah. sebum seems to work a whole heap better than the expensive products that i have (so happy to ditch them). it looks heaps better already. got some apple cider vinegar, too, incase i need it, but for now happy to wait a couple days anyway and see how much i can really get the sebum down into the ends. some of them are very dry. not split yet. hope i can save them. each trip to the hairdressers stops it growing…
(kinda embarrassed to admit my obvious now that i know them mistakes. but oh wells).[/quote]
Glad it worked out, don’t be embarrassed it’s a process, I don’t have it figured out totally yet. I think because hair is such a dynamic thing. What you did 3 months ago affects what happens now? Talk about a time delayed experiment!
